Baseball historians have given credit to several individuals for having been the first to use that sneakiest of tricks for getting on base - the bunt. In the Dec. 17, 1905 edition of the Boston Sunday Globe, the player who actually did invent the bunt was interviewed in Onset, Mass., where he had been living for several years.

In history, it is always best to be either the fi rst or the last to do something. Everyone remembers Neil Armstrong’s moon landing. But ask people to name any of the other Apollo astronauts who followed Armstrong to the moon’s surface and it’s unlikely that they can do it.